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The Leeds trolleybus system served the West Riding of Yorkshire city of Leeds in England between 1911 and 1928. In May 2016, plans to construct a new system, the New Generation Transport (NGT) project, were refused approval from the UK Department for Transport , following a negative report from the planning inquiry.
First West Yorkshire operates both local and regional bus services in West Yorkshire, England. It is a subsidiary of the FirstGroup, and is made up of three sub-division brands: First Bradford, First Halifax, Calder Valley & Huddersfield and First Leeds.
First West Yorkshire is the secondary user with services from First Leeds 6, 8, 27, 28, 33, 34, 62 and X84 covering areas including Headingley, Guiseley, Kirkstall and Otley Along with this First Bradford have their intercity services 72 and X6 in the bus station these services cover Armley , Bramley , Pudsey and Thornbury
First Travel Solutions [1] is a bus and coach operator in Great Britain. It is a subsidiary of FirstGroup . [ 2 ] It provides managed passenger transport from single vehicle operation to hundreds of buses and coaches for sporting and cultural events.
Bus services briefly resumed on 2 July when the strike was suspended to allow union members to be balloted on an increased pay offer from Arriva, [27] [28] however the offer was rejected by 53.7% of union members, with the strike resuming on 13 July.
A line-up of First Great Western trains at Plymouth in 2018. During December 1997, the company was renamed FirstGroup; [2] this change was due to the company's entry in February 1996 into Britain's recently privatised railways, having a 24.5% shareholding in Great Western Holdings that won the Great Western and North Western franchises, and a 100% shareholding in First Great Eastern that ran ...
It links Leeds, Tadcaster, York and Malton with the coastal towns of Whitby (840) and Scarborough (843). The routes are some of the longest public transport bus services in England, [3] and the 840 was voted to be the "most scenic bus route in Britain" in a nationwide poll. [4] [5] [6] [7]
Black Prince was the last family-owned independent bus operator in Leeds prior to the takeover. [8] In August 2005 a commemorative die-cast model of a Black Prince vehicle was released by Britbus. [9] In January 2006, one of the replacement routes introduced by First was criticised for failing to serve the Lingfields estate. First stated that ...